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International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I am going to share time with Deputy Lawless. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this. It is important we have a rulebook and framework that is workable and enforceable. Those who come to a country, as the Ceann Comhairle said, through international law seeking protection and asylum need to have a framework that is fair but, equally, robust. Asylum seeking...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: On the €3,000 payment, Bills take quite some time to work their way through. The Minister mentioned the embassy and said there has been a lot of engagement. Was this figure landed on some time ago, prior to the cost-of-living crisis? Whatever cost-of-living crisis we have had, the UK has also had one. Has everything that took place over the past 18 months been factored in or is the...

Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I will not use my full speaking time in case other Members need it. A lot of people are rushing to get to the Chamber. I welcome and support this Bill which extends Coimisiún na Meán's and the Competition and the Consumer Protection Commission's levy-raising powers to fund new enforcement functions under the Digital Services Act 2024 and the terrorist content online regulation....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses for being here today. I have quite a few questions and I will go through them quickly if possible. Mr. Jacobs said that DAA wants to get ahead of it all. I think he was talking about the pressures of the cap and everything else. Does he feel that Dublin Airport Authority has rushed in, got ahead of the Government's plan, blindsided the Government even, by getting its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Why would DAA not have waited for the national aviation policy review to take place? Last week we heard from Michael O'Leary that DAA had been to the Minister and is awaiting a decision from him. His own political future has rather changed in the past 24 hours. If all of that is happening, why go in quickly? As a semi-State body, why would DAA go in ahead of the State with an application?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: The whole country is obsessed about this 32 million cap. Is DAA in breach of any other planning conditions set out by An Bord Pleanála or Fingal County Council?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: None whatsoever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Returning to a point made by Deputy O'Rourke, can Mr. Jacobs confirm noise thresholds are not set out in planning?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Information circulated to all members of this committee suggests that DAA has been repeatedly in breach of some of those noise regulations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: With my tongue firmly in my cheek, I am wondering why does the planning condition that imposes a cap matter so much when there are other planning conditions not being adhered to, some would say on a daily basis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I seem to recall that the last day Mr. Jacobs appeared before the committee, he said that at the Christmas period DAA would get very close to the 32 million cap. Who will be the fall guy? Will it be the incidental charter flights? Will it be Ryanair? Will it be Aer Lingus? Who is DAA in talks with, cautioning them about their flights? Will people even get home for Christmas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: We know that, but what about Shannon Airport? Has Mr. Jacobs talked to Mary Considine?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Surely she can relieve some of the pressure Mr. Jacobs is under at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Last week, Michael O'Leary said that he reckons it could take up to five years to get this planning straightened out. I am sure he is listening today. What would Mr. Jacobs say to him? He is worried about his base in Dublin Airport. Is that a realistic timeline?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Are his two suggestions to overcome it realistic?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: There are airlines selling bargain basement airfares out of Dublin Airport and other Irish airports. Parking charges at Dublin Airport far exceed any city centre car park at the moment. They are €40 per day in the short-term car park - that is a capped price - and €16.50 per day in the express red and €14 per day in the holiday blue car parks. From a consumer point of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I understand the job Mr. Jacobs has to do. He has to run Dublin Airport and Cork Airport. He is here to speak for them. However, when he speaks about sustainability, is it not a bit incongruent, perhaps disingenuous, to talk about sustainability at a time when it is unsustainable to have all these flights coming out of Dublin without adding an extra brick, pane of glass or iron...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: At a time of disharmony, protest and even, sometimes, the horrible burning of accommodation facilities, I have something unique here: a petition signed by 500 people in Shannon, County Clare, asking the Government to keep Phoenix House, a Ukrainian war refugee centre, open and to extend the contract beyond this Friday. It has been a wonderful home to almost 200 Ukrainian refugees for the...